#The Harry Potter Cast Members We Didn’t See In The Return To Hogwarts Reunion

Is it just me, or is Harry Melling everywhere these days? The only place he is distinctly absent from is, apparently, Hogwarts. Melling appeared in several of the “Harry Potter” films as the world’s meanest cousin, Dudley Dursley, a child best known for sporting a ridiculous hat and yelling about birthday presents. Since his days starring as a spoiled brat, Melling has been putting in the work to distance himself from the character, in fear of being typecast. In 2020, he told EW:

“I think I was very lucky that I was allowed to move away from Dudley. When you start as a child actor, I think there are certain stigmas you get from that, and I never really wanted to engage in them. I just wanted to continue doing work, and go into drama school as a sort of, not a conscious way of doing it, but maybe a way of bridging that gap.

Melling has since worked with Joel and Ethan Coen on “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” starred in the Netflix hit series “The Queen’s Gambit,” and re-teamed with Joel Coen for the much-anticipated film, “The Tragedy of Macbeth.” I’d say his Dursley days are very much behind him.